On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:21:05PM +0000, Fionn Cleary wrote:
> Just reinstalled, but this time used standard bootblocks, as opposed
> to serial ones. works fine, and I'm compiling a new kernel as a
> test. serial terminal works fine though. I'm confused. Some kind of
> weird serial bug? I've had this machine as a gateway with an isdn ta
> and have had no problems whatsoever with linux using a serial console.

This is really strange. I use serial console on i386 from time to time and
didn't notice problems like this

> 
> btw, is there a way to set a terminal in /etc/ttys as using clocal (ie
> cable with only tx, rx and gnd, no flow control) I'm currently just
> using cron to set clocal every minute (quite a nasty hack) freebsd
> seems to have a capability in /etc/gettytab and you can use the -L
> option in linux to getty. any netbsd equivalents?

Yes, add 'local' in the flags section in /etc/ttys

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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